Early Risers.

[woodenhead]

Send help!  I am in the Trafford Centre and it’s full of people.

 

A visit to Asda is on the cards too.

[Grizz]

42 minutes ago, polybear said:

Let’s see now……

Lemon HCB

Treacle HCB

Salted Caramel HCB

That’ll do for starters

 

p.s. Next -day delivery to Bear Towers should do just fine 🤪

Hey there’s a thought……wonder what an LDC HCB would be like…..with a MOT of course. Gonna need a lexicon of abbreviations at this rate…..otherwise we might end up being….SOL right there! 
 

 

Edited March 29 by Grizz

[Tony_S]

10 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

it’s full of people.

It is so so quiet here today. Bank holiday in Benfleet could be a reference point for quiet. Nothing  much happens normally , watching parents parking at school pickup time is our major entertainment. Being a school holiday takes that fun away and we have to make do watching couriers deliver. As we have horrible colds there isn’t much else. I did venture out. My next door neighbours have become very anxious lately and they have gone to Wales. So I got a phone call this morning to say their door camera had reported someone leaving a package and it was one they hadn’t ordered. I didn’t make any facetious comments like “perhaps it is a drug delivery” as the neighbour really is that anxious. So I went round and found the Evri courier had left two packages, one they were expecting, but not today and a mysterious padded envelope from China with no house number and a name no one nearby recognised. 
Tony

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

Certain other parts of the US prefer the opposite approach!

Florida!

 

The natural companion to "Florida man"* is "Florida legislator".

 

* As in the headline: "FLORIDA MAN"...

• On meths wrestles alligator
• Is hit on the head by stunned iguana
• Is consumed by sinkhole while asleep in bed
• etc (at least two of those are likely to be true)

What surprised me more is your source and that they ran that story. "The National Desk, Sinclair Inc".

 

[Ozexpatriate]

20 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

* As in the headline: "FLORIDA MAN"...

From today: (literally)

 

CNN: Florida woman wakes up to find car destroyed. Video shows unlikely culprits

 

Would have been better as: "DOGS EAT FLORIDA WOMAN'S CAR"

 

[polybear]

Bear's back....

....from a post - din dins hilly wander + the usual pit stop; nottalott to report, apart from seeing a hideous pink VDub and watching a metal fairy truck shoot across the mini roundabout at the entrance to the Choo Choo Station at Warp 10 in a 30 limit, with diddly squat chance of stopping if needed to.  Ftwat (and probably no insurance either - even if you did fancy exchanging names & addresses.....).

There may be a Rant there....

 

BG

Edited March 29 by polybear

[Ozexpatriate]

1 hour ago, Grizz said:

one of Mrs Grizz’s homemade hot cross buns. Fresh out of the oven and then cut in two and Toasted, with fresh locally produced butter. 

Why would you toast a warm bun straight out of the oven? Sacrilege. Toasting is for day(s) old buns / breads etc. If still warm from the oven room temperature butter will soften for you.

 

No hot cross buns for me. (Not on the approved list, but as indicated twelvish moths ago, good ones are unobtanium locally.) Supermarkets might carry a facsimile pull-apart six pack, wrapped in plastic with a frosting cross - all sticky and too sweet.

[Captain Cuttle]

4 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

* As in the headline: "FLORIDA MAN"

Rainman Ray a Youtuber who runs a auto mechanic repair garage refers to his customers from the Keys them as Conchs. He had a blinged up Fiat 500 in the shop a couple of weeks ago to add just more shiny bits!

[Ozexpatriate]

1 minute ago, Captain Cuttle said:

customers from the Keys them as Conchs

The area (at least Key West) is known as the Conch Republic.

 

From the gastropod.

[pH]

A bit more general information about conches:
 

https://www.conchtourtrain.com/key-west/conch/m

Edited March 29 by pH

[jjb1970]

I have started watching the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem. As TV it is pretty good but given the book was something of a breakout for modern Chinese sci-fi outside of China it's slightly sad they moved much of the story to Britain. Apparently there's a Chinese adaptation which is much more faithful to the book which may hopefully be available internationally.  That said, it is recognisably an adaptation of the book unlike some. I loved The Man in the High Castle (well at least until season 4 when it went pear shaped IMO) but it bore very little relation to the book and the Apple adaptation of Foundation kept the premise of the books but basically made it into a new story.

[DaveF]

The weather has managed to stay dry so far which makes a nice change.

 

On the way to the beach I called at church as I remembered there was a short service for Good Friday, I got there just in time to take a seat in the pew before it started.  Then I went to the beach, it took a while to park as the car park was busy and most people are too lazy to park at the far end of the car park and walk back to buy their coffee so look for non existent spaces.  It was very pleasant but there were more people than usual on the beach.  It always amuses me to watch young women with their push chair dragging it over the stones and the bumpy bits of sand, I sometimes wonder what their child thinks of it.  The sun was out so I took a few photos, some are below showing much the usual view but with the tide a long way out.  It was just warm enough to sit on a bench and watch the world go by.

 

As a result of deciding to go to church I didn't post my usual photos this morning so I've just done a double batch on my photo thread.  

 

Since then I've read part of a book, had a good look at the Radio Times and decided what I might watch next week - not much, as usual.  I also did a bit more work on the model I am slowly making.  Progress might speed up a bit now.  I've also tidied up my scented geraniums and removed a few dead leaves.

 

By making myself not rush around doing things I've actually achieved more today and feel a bit less tired.

 

Low tide

 

 

St Mary's lighthouse and a ship off the Tyne.

 

People on the beach.  The breakwaters on the right are getting a bit battered looking.

 

David

Edited March 29 by DaveF
to amend word order

[woodenhead]

Made it out - one refund, some food treats from M&S, some shampoo and shower gel from Boots and a free Coffee in John Lewis. 

 

Rain poured whilst we had our coffee and then miraculously the sun was shining when we exited using the car park to get to Asda on foot rather then go back through half the length of the shopping areas.

 

Asda was also crazy but the rain stayed off long enough to walk home including popping in Aldi for some medicinal Brandy and meat for Monday, so all shopped up for the weekend.

 

Keep thinking it is Saturday and I am off to York tomorrow, but I am a day out, tomorrow is Saturday and I am at home.

 

After next week I am back on 5 day weeks at work having run down my holidays with every Friday off since mid January.  How pensioners keep up with the day of week I don't know, I guess it just means new routines to replace the old work routines.

[Tony_S]

11 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

How pensioners keep up with the day of week I don't know

There are only two days.Binsday and Notbinsday.

 

[Compound2632]

8 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

There are only two days.Binsday and Notbinsday.

 

That's like Polish, in which Sunday is "No work day" and Monday is "After no work day".

[Coombe Barton]

... car yesterday showed an unusual fault – no fuel – odd since I’d filled it up ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/covid-variants-unusual-car-fault/

[Ian Abel]

Moaning!!

As reported previous years, Easter here is devoid of anything approaching a public holiday, so, working today and Monday as if it never happens.

 

Yesterday a VERY LONG service to sing at followed by a much longer rehearsal than expected.

Started the service warm-up at 6PM, service 7-8:30PM, finished rehearsal at 9:40PM - ARRGGHHHH

 

Today, major additions/changes to reports greeted me first thing for work. No POETS likely today.

Later Jemma will drop off Whitney as she heads out for a 4-day trip, two turns to London.

Only weekend plans, other than getting some sleep are the Easter Sunday services the choir sing at.

We'll be on our own for Easter, not a problem, we're getting a nice take-out of traditional glazed ham and all the sides just for the two of us.

 

Weather finally continues to head towards Spring, -4c first thing, partly sunny, high of 6c expected. No below zero overnights in the week ahead, yay!

 

Carry on.

[Coombe Barton]

39 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

How pensioners keep up with the day of week I don't know

[Andy Hayter]

3 hours ago, polybear said:

Let’s see now……

Lemon HCB

Treacle HCB

Salted Caramel HCB

That’ll do for starters

 

p.s. Next -day delivery to Bear Towers should do just fine 🤪

 

Lucky you with that choice.

 

When asked, our patissier (bun and cake maker) replied:

Qu'est que c'est un ot crows bone 

 

Edited March 29 by Andy Hayter

[New Haven Neil]

Late call - Mrs NHN driven day!

 

Q said:- Having worked in Saudi, where the outside temperature officially don't go above 50C,  but we put a thermometer on a chair in the shade behind the packing case 8ft tall, 4ft wide and deep that we were filling. It hit over 70C, were were surrounded by tarmac... The guys on the flight line would change overalls half a dozen times a day. It's also a high humidity area on the coast where we were.

 

Hmm yeah I agree, try working in a steel box (ships engineroom for instance) with a 30 thousand horsepower diesel engine for company, and the air as described above is the intake temperature.  Like Q, I couldn't do it now, it was hard enough then back in my 20's.

 

A scrappy day, we had the Old Farts Bike Club breakfast, then we were at a loose end as it kept raining so rode the electric thing that runs on parallel steel things, and then on a horsey powered version of the same thing in the Big City prom. It rained off and on all day.

 

 

 

 

[PhilJ W]

4 hours ago, Grizz said:

Hey there’s a thought……wonder what an LDC HCB would be like…..with a MOT of course. Gonna need a lexicon of abbreviations at this rate…..otherwise we might end up being….SOL right there! 

Tesco's do an orange & lemon HCB, I've tried them, not too bad but I prefer the apple and cinnamon.

[Erichill16]

Evening,

Carp day, My team lost and that’s not the worst of it. 
Early night.

 

[monkeysarefun]

5 hours ago, polybear said:

Let’s see now……

Lemon HCB

Treacle HCB

Salted Caramel HCB

That’ll do for starters

 

p.s. Next -day delivery to Bear Towers should do just fine 🤪

 

[PupCam]

Evening

 

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

There are only two days.Binsday and Notbinsday.

 

I'm reminded of "There are 10 types of people; those that understand binary and those who do not" 😉

 

ION

 

A tragedy was avoided today! 

 

Whilst out for a quick thrash on the RD Mrs Puppers & Junior Puppers were "sorting" through the big plastic box of long forgotten childhood soft toys     To keep it topical it was a binary choice; Keep or Go (to the charity shop).   Imagine my dismay @New Haven Neil when, on my return, I found Donk's cousin Bonk assigned to the Go pile!    Fortunately I was able to highlight the error in the filtering process and Bonk is now safe and ready for some Bimbles, Chugs & Thrashes over the coming months.   He said it would be great to "Do the TT course" sometime with his cousin (I didn't like to disappoint him so I just said "Maybe one day" and left it at that 🤣)

 

 

I've modified the weather vane and  made a fitting to attach it to it's new mounting pole.   This had to be silver soldered to the base of the fixed section.     I may have got the wooden Workmate jaws slightly too warm whilst doing so.    In the world of old motorcycles it's called patina ....  I just call it burnt wood.

 

That's about it for today I reckon.

 

TTFN

 

 

 

  

Edited March 29 by PupCam
It was Mrs Puppers NOT Puppers!

[monkeysarefun]

4 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

From today: (literally)

 

CNN: Florida woman wakes up to find car destroyed. Video shows unlikely culprits

 

Would have been better as: "DOGS EAT FLORIDA WOMAN'S CAR"

 

 

 

 

 

A fun game - find out YOUR inner FloridaMan.

 

Google "Florida Man"  then the day and month of your birthday to find out what kind of Florida man you are.

 

For example "Florida Man March 30" produces

 

"Florida man hit mother, stuffed dumplings in her mouth for refusing to dress his mannequin"

 

 

 

 

My personal FloridaMan - 

 

"Florida man uses hurricane debris, builds giant pirate ship"

Edited March 29 by monkeysarefun